Epstein once refused to manipulate cryptocurrency prices to avoid public ethical issues

BlockBeats News, February 2, crypto journalist Kyle Torpey revealed that in the newly exposed Epstein files, in August 2018, Epstein told Bitcoin developer Jeremy that he had ethical concerns about manipulating cryptocurrency prices. Epstein declined the related transaction and said he would rather fund other things, but could not publicly be involved in matters with ethical issues.

Additionally, the newly disclosed files include an interesting email from a certain exchange CEO, Brian Armstrong, to investors. In February 2016, Brian Armstrong told investors in an email that the exchange was working behind the scenes to ensure the network would not be held back by "early idealists," and expected a hard fork to 2MB blocks to occur in the next month or two. However, this hard fork never happened; the last attempt was abandoned in the fall of 2017, as it was seen as driven by corporate interests and lacked community support.